Curches are running into the law of diminishing returns. If you draw people with theatrics you have to keep them with theatrics and you keep having to one up yourself, or people will soon get bored.
When you come for the wrong reason, to be entertained, you will leave when you are no longer being entertained.
If you come for the right reason, to hear the gospel preached and see souls drawn to Christ, you will stay and become a part of that worthy endeavor.
Psalm 66:16 Come, and hear, all you who fear God. I will declare what he has done for my soul.
I love to tell the story
of unseen things above,
of Jesus and his glory,
of Jesus and his love.
I love to tell the story,
because I know 'tis true;
it satisfies my longings
as nothing else can do.
I love to tell the story,
'twill be my theme in glory,
to tell the old, old story
of Jesus and his love.
I love to tell the story;
more wonderful it seems
than all the golden fancies
of all our golden dreams.
I love to tell the story,
it did so much for me;
and that is just the reason
I tell it now to thee.
I love to tell the story,
'twill be my theme in glory,
to tell the old, old story
of Jesus and his love.
I love to tell the story;
'tis pleasant to repeat
what seems, each time I tell it,
more wonderfully sweet.
I love to tell the story,
for some have never heard
the message of salvation
from God's own holy Word.
I love to tell the story,
'twill be my theme in glory,
to tell the old, old story
of Jesus and his love.
I love to tell the story,
for those who know it best
seem hungering and thirsting
to hear it like the rest.
And when, in scenes of glory,
I sing the new, new song,
'twill be the old, old story
that I have loved so long.
I love to tell the story,
'twill be my theme in glory,
to tell the old, old story
of Jesus and his love.
